Related is Microsoft's Silica which is storing 7TB on square quartz glass platters.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...
Long-term archival storage is going to be an important industry as our data volumes grow.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...
Long-term archival storage is going to be an important industry as our data volumes grow.
It is sad there is no removable media other than maybe these few TB portable ssds that can be used for archival purposes. I _still_ have my commodore 64 datasette tapes as well as floppies from the start of the pc era(for me).
Even for the prosumer there were iomega drives. Now, one is supposed to use (and trust in) the cloud. Bonkers.
Exactly! Or where is the affordable 1-5 TB Tape?!
And worst of all SSD is not reliable. And apart from an over supply market where prices have fallen to record low we are at right now. NAND cost wont be dropping much in the near future.
Apart from big Enterprise, most smaller shops dont know and cant afford to do storage / backups.
Unless you care about reading your data, as then it won't be important. Let me know when tape starts taking more of the global storage market share. It's a super mature, functional, and far higher performance storage media, and it's total percentage of global bytes shipped dwindle.